Teachers' Toolbox/Ways to improve your own teaching
There are several ways to continuously improve and develop your own teaching.
Peer coaching
[edit | edit source]Resources
Feedback to other teachers
[edit | edit source]Student evaluations
[edit | edit source]Feedback to the supervisor
[edit | edit source]Below is a sample of a questionaire for the students. But keep contact to the students during the project, also outside the lab/classroom to get a feeling for how the group is working and what they might need from you.
EXAMPLE: Feedback questionnaire
[edit | edit source]We would like you to write a brief answer to the following questions, so we can improve the supervision and overall teaching of courses:
The theory and background:
- Has the goal of the project been clear to you ?
- Have you been in doubt about why you were doing something (if yes, please give an example) ?
- Did you find the project matched and challenged your knowledge, or was it too easy/difficult ?
- How did your supervisor teach you - did you miss some specific kind of help (more help on basic theory, more structured teaching etc.) ?
- Whats the best experience you had during the project ?
- Whats the worst experience you had during the project ?
- if you had a bad experience, what would you suggest to avoid this in the future?
Groupwork:
- Are you satisfied with your own engagement in the project ?
- Are you satisfied with your groupmembers engagement ?
- What kind of problems did you encounter in the team and why did they occur ?
- Did you manage to distribute the workload evenly ?
- Did you manage to follow your strategy plan ?
- Could /should you supervisor help you more with how the group works, and how ?
Teaching portfolio
[edit | edit source]Writing down in your CV or in a teaching portfolio what you have been working on and how you have approached the teaching with various methods depending on the aim and students level is a valuable source of inspiration when you get the 'grand picture' rather than solving day to day problems.
Video feedback
[edit | edit source]Nobody seems to like this, but having you teaching recorded on video and the having a look at yourself afterwards is probably a very efficient way to see what you could improve...